The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-01
THROUGH THE STATE,
Accidents aud Incidents In West Virginia
aiFtIft and Vicinity. ..Is .r1H


4EE3N and Vicinity. ag
The are now about 1900 guests at III
Greenbricr White Sulphur Springs. p
Hon. L. Boyd Faulkner, OF Martius
burg, Is spending q few days at Atlantl
city. ,lT5g,FH'5''g i91I =
Richard Collins has been placed in til
Nicholas county jail charged with brcal;
Ing into Alderson's saw mill. GlH
At the dedication Of new NJ, Z. churcl
at Fort Spring, Gteenbrier county, $27,
was quickly raised to liquidate tho churc!
debt. AZ. ms M ''TI77', 1e5"-.'
Hon. Henry G. Davis and his eon.in
law, Stephen B. Elkins, and their iamilica
are seeking refuge from the heated spel
at the Webster Springs.
The Richmond Light Infantry Blue.
will 20 into camp for ten days at the Olt
Sweet Spring, August s.. This resort Ia O
popular one with many from this State.
A project is on foot to connect Chenille
and Weston by telephones Glenvflle h
sorely In need Of come rapid means Of
communication with the outside world.
Wash simns (colored) living at Salem,
Va, while working in a Mercer county
coal bank was crushed to death by fall
Of coal and soapstohe. He was about II
years old. lgr'ta - ~ ~ ~
The Martinaburg Independent says Penn.
sylvania gentlemen have rented a portion
Of the WIS. Henshaw land, near the Big
Springa, and will grow water crosses for
the eastern market. ElTI7
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The Mercer county court offers to pay
o0 cents for every grown catamount killed
and 20 cents for every young one. The
woods out that way are said to be full OF
these savage brutes. ..lI-3'7
A reward OF five hundred dollars is OF.
Tered for the apprehension OF the party
who attempted 10 murder Mr.. Isaac 7.
Mann, teller OF the .Graenbrier Valley
Bank at Alderaon, and rob that instit,i.
ton. '[IUf -is'1 -" =
The South Branch Gazette tolls OF a curl.
Gus spring on one OF Grant county's hill
aides near Petersburg, that runs intermitt.
ingly, at one time being almost dry and
then gushing forth from the earth in q
regular torrent. r775 ~.
a young man named Nesby, brake
man on the chesapeake & Ohio railroad,
Tell between the wheels OF freight Train
some distance below Hinton and had both
legs cut of. He died a few minutes after
ward, swearing in the widest manner at
those whose negligence and carslessaess
he claimed coat his life. .l)8 @5..7,1'
One OF the keyeer Echos correspond.
ents writes: "a disease is breaking out
in tha paiuhhorhona ~ NFa.L..:.tt -
among milch COWS. It is in Major Parkers
herd, on Mill Greek, Hampshire county.
II 10 a disease of the eye. They become
blind from q white film over the eye,
whlch swells and waters very much. The
animals decrease in flesh very rapidly.
DO not know how dangerous it Is"
George Thompson, of Pocahontss coun.
ty. committed suicide last week BY drown.
ing hlmself in dam on the Greenbrier
river. He went to the place accompanied
by little daughter, and when about to
get into boat he handed her his hat,
some money and letters. He then delib.
erately took hold of the boat and upset it.
The daughter becoming frightened ran to
the nearest house, and when assistance
arrived they found him standing upright
IN water, about ak inches over his head
clutching the sides OF the capsizsd boat,
dead. No cause has been learned, though
It ie thought he has been suffering from 8
slight alteration OF mind recently, He
leaves wife and several children.
The Clarksburg Neus in referring to the
death OF stonewall Jackson Wilson, son OF
Col: Ben Wilson, OF Harrison county, SAYS:
= largo circle Of friends and relatives
mourn the death Of stonewall +. Wilson.
We do not know of any young man who
gave more promise Of long life and use.
tulness than stonewall did. We
understand that it WAS the desire
OF stonewall's life, as it was the
dream Of his fathers life, that be should
qualify himself for the bar, and Join his
father in the practice of tbs law. His
father fondly hoped that when he should
retire, he would leave his talented son a
strong man in the enjoyment Of public
to perpetuste the family name.
That dream has fitted away, and the To-
mIented one, we fsrvently hope, is in
The enjoyment of happiness beyond the